[attributes] --- label: January 2019 update of the WDPA layout: template-resource target_page: categories: - Updates & News is_published: true position: 46 [categories topics] wdpa [categories types] [text resource_link_text] [text resource_link_url] [text resource_file_title] [file resource_file] [text display_version_alert] 1 [text social-title] [text social-description] [text_custom summary] The total number of protected area records in the January 2019 release of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is 242,276 comprising of 221,503 polygons and 20,773 points, covering 245 countries and territories. [date_not_null published_date] 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC [wysiwyg content]
The total number of protected area records in the January 2019 release of the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) is 242,276 comprising of 221,503 polygons and 20,773 points, covering 245 countries and territories.
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European Environment Agency (EEA) Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA): Complete update of 48 countries and territories. 7,027 polygons have been added to the WDPA, along with 795 points. Points in the CDDA were previously buffered before being submitted to the WDPA. This is no longer the case, and as a result 3,062 polygons were converted to points during this update. 91,960 polygons have been updated or verified.
Chile: Update of all national sites in Chile. Chile provided a full national update in January 2018. Since then there has been a further addition of two new marine/ coastal protected areas: Tortel Área Marina Costera Protegida (6,702km2), Seno Almirantazgo Área Marina Costera Protegida (764km2), and 2 terrestrial sites: Melimoyu Parque Nacional (1,054km2), Pumalín Douglas Tompkins Parque Nacional (4,023km2). Some governance types, ownership types and management authorities were updated too. The boundary of one Ramsar site, Bahia Lomas, has been updated. Aracurias UNESCO MAB site also has an updated polygon, and has expanded from two small sites covering 933km2 to its new extent of 11,428km2.
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Polygon |
Point |
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Point converted to polygon |
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| Chile |
Complete
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4
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0
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202
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0
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0
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0
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0 |
| Albania | Complete |
2
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0
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55
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742
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0
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0 |
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0
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| Austria | Complete | 0 | 0 | 1159 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Belgium | Complete | 23 | 43 | 1422 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Bulgaria | Complete | 32 | 2 | 1014 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Cyprus | Complete | 0 | 0 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Czech Republic | Complete | 57 | 19 | 2606 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Germany | Complete | 216 | 110 | 17430 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Denmark | Complete | 0 | 0 | 1917 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Estonia | Complete | 3948 | 185 | 7522 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 945 | ||
| Finland | Complete | 785 | 634 | 12058 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| France | Complete | 97 | 5 | 2787 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Great Britain | Complete | 0 | 0 | 9387 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Greece | Complete | 0 | 0 | 803 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Greenland | Complete | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Hungary | Complete | 1 | 0 | 307 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Ireland | Complete | 0 | 0 | 155 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Iceland | Complete | 0 | 2 | 112 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Italy | Complete | 0 | 0 | 871 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Liechtenstein | Complete | 2 | 5 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Lithuania | Complete | 0 | 0 | 479 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Luxembourg | Complete | 7 | 0 | 116 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
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Latvia |
Complete | 0 | 32 | 677 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Spain | Complete | 16 | 1 | 1778 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Saint Martin | Complete | 0 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| The former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia |
Complete | 0 | 0 | 75 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Malta | Complete | 30 | 0 | 228 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Montenegro | Complete | 0 | 1 | 3 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Martinique | Complete | 11 | 1 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Mayotte | Complete | 8 | 7 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Netherlands | Complete | 0 | 0 | 180 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Norway | Complete | 82 | 11 | 2921 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Poland | Complete | 14 |
2 | 2032 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Portugal | Complete | 4 | 0 | 225 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Reunion | Complete | 0 | 1 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Romania | Complete | 169 | 0 | 775 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Svalbard and Jan Mayen | Complete | 0 | 0 | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | Complete | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Serbia | Complete | 46 | 2 | 319 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Slovakia | Complete | 39 | 22 | 1152 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Slovenia | Complete | 1 | 2 | 1174 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Sweden | Complete | 470 | 23 | 13660 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Switzerland | Partial | 4 | 0 | 200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Added: New feature added in the WDPA (i.e. a new WDPAID was created)
Removed: Number of feature removed from the WDPA (i.e. a WDPAID was removed from the database)
Updated: Modifications/updates of the geometry or some attributes of existing feature in the WDPA (i.e. a feature with an existing WDPAID.
Citation: UNEP-WCMC (2019). Protected areas map of the world, January 2019 Available at: www.protectedplanet.net
WDPA User Manual: We are pleased to announce that the WDPA User Manual has been translated into French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. Additionally, the Manual has been updated with an appendix on WDPA Data Contributor Agreements (Appendix 2), and has undergone general updates and edits based on user feedback. Version 1.5 of the User Manual is now available in five languages via the following links:
English: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual
French: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_FR
Spanish: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_ES
Russian: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_RU
Arabic: http://wcmc.io/WDPA_Manual_AR
New: Protected Area Management Effectiveness– Country pages on Protected Planet now display information on the management effectiveness of national-level protected areas, as reported by data providers. Pages for individual protected areas now also provide information on whether the sites have Monitoring and Evaluation data in the Global Database on Protected Area Management Effectiveness (GD-PAME).
The data set status is defined as either:
1) New data set received, 2) Under review by UNEP-WCMC, 3) Under validation by data provider or 4) Final approval stages.
Brazil: Under validation by data provider
Canada: Under review by UNEP-WCMC
Colombia Final approval stages
Costa Rica: Under validation by data provider
Falkands Islands (Malvinas): Under validation by data provider
Mozambique: Under validation by data provider
Nigeria: Under validation by data provider
Peru: Under validation by data provider
Seychelles: Under validation by data provider
Kenya: Under review by UNEP-WCMC
Vietnam: Under review by UNEP-WCMC
Cameroon: Under review by UNEP-WCMC
Congo (Democratic Republic of): Under review by UNEP-WCMC